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You can help us sustain the region's sustainability

Sentinel & Enterprise

Updated:
04/21/2014 06:30:45 AM EDT

It's hard to stay optimistic these days. It seems like people have forgotten how to think, how to be considerate, how life works. We have been so wrapped up in our own worlds that many people are jarred by the environmental, political, agricultural, and our communities have suffered by our absence. Now is the time to work together to change that, so we can face the future more prepared and secure in the road ahead.

North Central Massachusetts has a reason for hope, if people will help make it happen. North Country Sustainability Center Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization that has been working for nearly five years to create a place where people can share a mutual need for food, community and the arts, to create a better life for their families.

A food hub will help consumers find local food year round. Classes will give people self-reliance skills such as cooking, sewing and carpentry. Traditional arts will elevate basic skills into works of art, such as storytelling, acoustic music, weaving and more. Animals raised by 4H kids can be used not only to teach them, but to help autistic people and veterans healing from their war wounds, without judgment, and in a welcoming community.

We need the help of as many people as possible from Greater Gardner and Greater Fitchburg, even Greater Worcester, to reach into their pockets and help us raise the money to find a home. We have an old mill in mind that will allow us to do most of what we have to do.

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We have a partnership in Fitchburg that will make other parts possible, such as starting small food-based businesses. But we need a place to hang our hat, so that we can continue with our work to educate about the natural gas pipeline, about climate change, food literacy, or just have fun together.

If you can afford to help a dollar at a time, or larger, please do. If you have a building with some land that you are willing to donate or lease affordably, please let us know.

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